Dedicated Neuro-Highway: Human Brains Hard-Wired To Link What We See With What We Do
Sunday, March 16, 2014 - 18:35
in Psychology & Sociology
Researchers from University College Londonand Cambridge University says have found evidence of a specialized mechanism for spatial self-awareness that combines visual cues with body motion - that our ability to instantly link what you see with what we do is thanks to a dedicated information 'highway'. Standard visual processing is prone to distractions, as it requires us to pay attention to objects of interest and filter out others. The new study has shown that our brains have separate 'hard-wired' systems to visually track our own bodies, even if we are not paying attention to them. In fact, the newly-discovered network triggers reactions even before the conscious brain has time to process them. read more